Bob Grant

From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.

Articles by Bob Grant

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Insights Abound Even at Journey’s End

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Wonders Without, Wonders Within

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Once More Unto the Breach

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Living the Life Pandemic

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Introducing TS Digest

New ideas and imagination Creativity and inspiration Technological innovation.

Innovations that Matter

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Brave New Publishing World

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Our Aching Brains

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Delta Blues

Labs, Leaks, and Liability

The Psychology of Panic

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Depoliticizing Science

Our Expanding Universe

Democratized Discovery

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June 2025, Issue 1

Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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Seeing and Sorting with Confidence

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Streamlining Microbial Quality Control Testing

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